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Author: Clay Keller and Ryan Marker

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Experts and enthusiasts competitively collaborate in the creation of screen-centric "best of" lists. Hosted by draft commissioners Clay Keller and Ryan Marker. "Most impeccable taste in guests." - Entertainment Weekly
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Every Kristmas Eve the Screen Drafts Commissioners sit down at the draft table to celebrate the work of a personal favorite filmmaker or actor. This year they are joined by guest commish Bryan Cogman to competitively / collaboratively rank the five films written and directed by the singular WHIT STILLMAN! Join the Screen Drafts Booster Club and become a citizen of Draftland!  Patreon.com/screendrafts
Join Clay and Ryan, and guest commissioner Bryan Cogman, as they rank the five films nominated for Best Picture at the 48th Academy Awards, held in 1976: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Dog Day Afternoon, Nashville, Barry Lyndon, and Jaws. Did the Academy get it right the first time, or should a different film have been crowned as the Best of 1975? Listen and find out! Want to be a Booster? Get at least three bonus episodes every month by becoming a Season Ticket Holder! www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Angie Han (The Hollywood Reporter) and Liz Shannon Miller (consequence.net) return to the virtual draft table to competitively / collaboratively rank all 9 feature films written or written and directed by CHARLIE KAUFMAN! Also joining us is Patreon Official Sponsor Mark Rozeman (The Good Doctor), with a terrific trivia round! Check out Mark's "Kaufman Collage" here: https://vimeo.com/1036145999 Want more Screen Drafts action? Get Boosted by joining the Screen Drafts Booster Club! Go to www.patreon.com/screendrafts for info.
Screen Drafts Hall-of-Famer Clarke Wolfe and rookie Samm Levine join us at the draft table to talk about their Thanksgiving set horror film Fiendsgiving and rank the 7 best HORROR films set on a (non-Christmas and non-Halloween) HOLIDAY! Check out the Fiendsgiving indiegogo page via the link below! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fiendsgiving-an-original-holiday-slasher-movie#/ Want more Screen Drafts action? Get Boosted by joining the Screen Drafts Booster Club! Go to www.patreon.com/screendrafts for info.
All train tracks have led to this: the THRILLING conclusion of the ALFRED HITCHCOCK MEGA DRAFT! Clay and guest commish Drea Clark (Maximum Film) are joined by GMs Ben Mankiewicz (TCM's The Plot Thickens and Talking Pictures), Maureen Lee Lenker (His Girl Hollywood) and Oriana Nudo (Hollywood-ography) for picks #10 to #1 on the definitive "Master of Suspense" Top 30 list.  This concludes HITCHCOCK / TRUFFAUT Month, thanks for listening! Coming in January... COPPOLA Month! Want more Screen Drafts action? Get Boosted by joining the Screen Drafts Booster Club! Go to www.patreon.com/screendrafts for info.
Marya E. Gates returns alongside Clay Keller, Ryan Marker, and guest commissioner Billy Ray Brewton for the epic conclusion to the FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT SUPER DRAFT, ranking films #11 to #1 on the single, definitive, best-of list! Next week brings the grand finale of HITCHCOCK / TRUFFAUT Month, with Oriana Nudo, Maureen Lee Lenker, and Ben Mankiewicz ranking the Top 10 films directed by Alfred Hitchcock! Join the Booster Club: www.patreon.com/screendrafts
The epic ALFRED HITCHCOCK MEGA DRAFT continues in PART TWO, as Mark Harris (Pictures at a Revolution, Five Came Back, Mike Nichols: A Life), Adam B. Vary (Variety) and Screen Drafts Legend Darren Franich (The Draftland Scene) take over the middle of the list, ranking films #20 to #11! Want more Screen Drafts action? Get Boosted by joining the Screen Drafts Booster Club! Go to www.patreon.com/screendrafts for info.
Hitchcock / Truffaut Month continues with PART ONE of the FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT SUPER DRAFT! Veteran GM Marya E. Gates joins Clay and Ryan to make picks 21-12 on the definitive ranking of the work from one of the architects of the French New Wave. Leading the festivities as guest commish is Screen Drafts Legend Billy Ray Brewton!
HITCHCOCK / TRUFFAUT Month commences with PART ONE (picks 30-21) of the long, long, long-awaited ALFRED HITCHCOCK MEGA DRAFT. Joining us to build the foundation of the list are newly-minted Screen Drafts All-Star William Bibbiani (Critically Acclaimed Network), author Walter Chaw (A Walter Hill Film), and newly-minted Screen Drafts LEGEND Drea Clark (Maximum Film)! In two weeks: PART TWO with Mark Harris, Darren Franich, and Adam B. Vary
SCREAM Drafts 2024 comes to a shocking conclusion as Screen Drafts Legend Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) is joined by B.J. Colangelo (This Ends at Prom) and Chris Hewitt (Empire Magazine) to rank the 13 (oooo scary) best HORROR films made by HAMMER studios in the CLASSIC era!
It's week three of SCEAM Drafts VII and out-of-towners Josh Larsen (Filmspotting) and Joe George (Den of Geek) broke down in Draftland, so we tied them to the draft table and made them rank the 7 best RURAL HORROR films ever made!
In week 2 of SCREAM Drafts 2024, Justin LaLiberty and Samm Deighan of Vinegar Syndrome return to rank the 7 best EROTIC HORROR films!
SCREAM Drafts VII kicks off with "best friends" Billy Ray Brewton and Kyle Anderson ranking the 7 best horror films from the year 1977!
Literacy Month comes to an end as Team This Had Oscar Buzz (Chris Feil & Joe Reid) squares off with Team Vanity Fair Refugees (Joanna Robinson & Katey Rich), competitively / collaboratively ranking the 7 best movies about BOOKSTORES and LIBRARIES! 
Returning GMs Katie Walsh and Louis Peitzman join us for the next chapter of Literacy Month, ranking the 7 best films adapted from the works of the Talented Ms. Highsmith!
Daniel Fienberg (The Hollywood Reporter), Alan Sepinwall (Rolling Stone), and Linda Holmes (NPR), are back at the draft table, this time joined by Jen Yamato (The Washington Post), for the next installment in their journey through the history of SPORTS in cinema! Up at bat: the 1990s!
Literacy Month continues with screenwriters Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) and Milla Bell-Hart (Bad Monkey) ranking the best films ever made from the work of acclaimed crime writer ELMORE LEONARD! Joining Clay at the commissioner's table is Screen Drafts legend and writer of The Draftland Scene, Mr. Darren Franich. 
An adventure 4 years in the making! To kick off Literacy Month, Commissioner Clay is joined by newly minted Screen Drafts All-Star Darrin Navarro, Screen Drafts Legend Billy Ray Brewton, and guest commissioner Bryan Cogman (also a Screen Drafts Legend) to rank all 22 films directed, written, or adapted from the works of the prolific master of the science thriller, MICHAEL CRICHTON! 
Co-authors of LOST: Back to the Island, Emily St. James (Yellowjackets) & Noel Murray (The New York Times, The A.V. Club), rank the 7 best films ever made about CASTAWAYS!
Rookies Bilge Ebiri and Brandon Streussnig join Screen Drafts vet Roxana Hadadi to competitively / collaboratively rank all 13 films directed by the Master of Dudes Rock Cinema, MICHAEL MANN!
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